Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty

by Louise Siddons

What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change?

A fundamental dilemma exists in documentary photography: can white artists successfully portray Indigenous lives and communities in a manner that neither appropriates nor romanticizes them? With an attentive and sensitive eye, Louise Siddons examines lesbian photographer Laura Gilpin's classic 1968 book The Enduring Navaho to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517910722
• ISBN13: 9781517910723
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"